Installation guide

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Intended Audience
This guide is intended for system engineers and planners who want to provide converged networking
products, solutions, and services to their customers. It is also intended for network planners and
administrators who are implementing a converged network for their company. This guide describes how
to install an Oracle converged network in preparation for production deployment.
The guide provides system engineers, architects, and end users with a step-by-step method to implement
a unified fabric and measure performance of a pilot operation. This guide does not provide methods to
measure performance under load or to contrast performance between various protocols, media types, or
file systems. This guide is intended to assist in implementing a converged fabric using current storage
and protocols.
This guide assumes the use of existing storage and Fibre Channel switches, and therefore, does not
describe switch and storage configuration in detail. This guide also assumes a basic knowledge of
Enhanced Ethernet and the associated standards. If you are not familiar with FCoE and Enhanced
Ethernet, review the documents listed in “Appendix A: FCoE and Enhanced Ethernet Related Materials”
on page 21.